General Overview

A basic forum style message board, with posts, replies to posts, and replies to replies.

Features

Must have

• Posts
• Replies to posts
• Replies to replies
• Account management
• Searchable outside of having an account
• Search system
• Image support

Nice to have

• PFP support
• youtube/other site embeds
• multiple categories
• Tagging system for posts
• Private messaging
• Group messaging

Technical Challenges

• We will have to learn how to get images from the user and store/serve them back
• We will have to learn how to dynamically show the user generated posts in relation to each other

Requirements

• This project will fulfill a forum-like interface that a community could use to discuss things in a way that people outside of the community can still read discussions and glean information without having to make an account.